Evidence: | 'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the excitement of a sympathetic spectator, but my growing consciousness that women suffered from remediable injustices was due less to the movement for the vote than to my early environment with its complacent acceptance of female subordination.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1900 and 31 Dec 1914 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Vera Brittain |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Dec 1893 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Olive Schreiner |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Fiction, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 23303 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Friendship | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 133 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship (Great Britain, 1980), p. 133, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23303, accessed: 09 December 2023 |
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